‘A small print on a mailbox becomes something really precious when you remove all the noise around it and isolate it from its setting.’ (Merel Karhof, Project two). Explore familiar or alien surroundings by isolating, documenting and displaying anything you think will create a new awareness of the landscape.
On receiving the above project the group was released into Bournville to explore it and find inspiration in everyday sights, smells, sounds, textures, colours and texts. I used a variety of methods of collection including rough sketches, photographs, picking up a sample or print of something using masking tape, and so on using the resources I had.
Using masking tape I made prints of
some graffiti I found on the top of a bin and then lined them up on a piece of paper. I liked the composition of this and so I enlarged the shapes and painted them in watercolour.
I didn't like the outcome of the watercolour piece as you lose the texture and randomness of the patterns picked up and so I went back and made new prints of lots of masking tape. With this I made a line down the studio wall which I think is interesting since graffiti is usually unresticted however this is bound within a thin line. If I were to go further with this project, I would try working in larger scale and thinking about what the graffiti actually said originally.
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